Future Lab Digital Logistics

Brief description

  • Typification/differentiation of digitalisation/automation: data/information processing, physical processes.
  • Content, principles and management of digital business models
  • Objectives and formal goals of digitalisation/automation of business processes
  • Theoretical concepts of logistics and supply chain management, especially modularisation, outsourcing, network theory, network economics
  • Technical developments such as distributed ledgers, robotics or software as a service
  • Organisational developments such as the virtual organisation, modularisation of services, platform economy
  • Concepts for decision-making in the entrepreneurial context e. g. transaction cost theory, complexity of technology

Mode of delivery

face to face

Type

compulsory

Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools

Chopra, S., & Meindl, P. (2016): Supply chain management: Strategy, planning, and operation.
Göpfert, I. (Hrsg.) (2019): Logistik der Zukunft – Logistics for the Future: Logistikvisionen und erfolgreiche Strategien von Industrie-, Handels- und Dienstleistungsunternehmen, 8th ed., Springer/Gabler.
Leimeister, Jan Marco. (2020): Dienstleistungsengineering und -management: Data-driven Service Innovation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Input by logistics professionals, workshops with professionals from logistics and supply chain consulting companies, work on concrete, practical tasks and case studies, presentation and discussion of practical exercises results.

Assessment methods and criteria

Continuous assessment 40 % (participation, group and individual tasks, presentations).
Open book exam 60 % (written elaboration of given questions).

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Modules Logistics Excellence I and II, Agile Management & Digital Transformation I and II

Infos

Degree programme

Logistics & Strategic Management (Master)

Cycle

Master

ECTS Credits

3.00

Language of instruction

German

Curriculum

Part-Time

Academic year

2025

Semester

3 WS

Incoming

No

Learning outcome

After successful completion of the course, students can

  • explain the goals and benefits of the digitalisation of logistics and supply chain business processes conceptually by using practical examples (2),
  • name and explain trends and enablers in the digitalisation and automation of logistics processes and supply chain management (2),
  • explain foreseeable developments in logistics and supply chain management (2),
  • name, explain and analyse practical business models and their digital impact elements in logistics and supply chain management (4),
  • explain the conditions and influencing factors for/on digitalisation and automation, identify them in practice and make an assessment of practical options, e. g. availability of data/information, quality requirements, variability of information and goods flows (5),
  • derive practical measures in response to the challenges of future digitalisation and automation (6).

Course code

1392-21-01-BB-DE-22